Re: [htdig] rundig freezes when it cant connect to host

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Geoff Hutchison:
> At 2:30 PM -0600 10/31/01, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> >(Not to nag or anything, but if you get a chance to look into the problem
> >it would be great.)
> 
> I'll take another look. Which reminds me of another change I'll need 
> to make--though I've been kicking and screaming about it, SourceForge 
> is closing the FTP server.

Yeah, that's a pain.  You can use FTP to download from their download
servers, but I don't know if we can automate the placement of snapshots
and contrib files on those servers.  It all seems to be geared to the
manual upload of individual release files.

> >WordMonitor.cc.  My concern in backporting the Connection code is being
> >sure that the code is self-contained enough and this change won't break
> >anything else.  If this change depends on any changes in other files and
> >we overlook those, we could be asking for trouble.
> 
> No, those changes are self-contained--I made the changes to 
> Connection.cc myself. You'll obviously want to include the 
> appropriate configuration attributes. I could have sworn I brought 
> that back to the htdig-3-1-x tree, but it could be it never got 
> committed.
> 
> Or if you'd prefer, I can do the backporting myself.

I'd appreciate that.  You have a better understanding of the changes,
and I'm pretty tied up with changes to htsearch and a few HTML parser
changes.

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